That’s how they did it in Maryland in the early 1990s.
I've been asking for decades and I still can't find anyone who admits to having voted for him.
Since then... The DFL (Democrat Farm Labor) branch of the DNC up here has been using the "Minnesota Template" everywhere else. Same rhetoric, voting shenanigan's, etc... All with the clapping and barking of the harp seals on the local DNC controlled mass media...